M.C. Mini Masters
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The M.C. Mini Masters is an amateur miniature golf tournament affiliated with the American Mini Golf Alliance (AMA). Founded in 1997, the tournament has been held annually since. It has a format unique to miniature golf tournaments, whether professional or amateur, in that each round of the tournament is played on a different course. Despite this, the entire six-round event is completed in approximately thirteen hours from tee-off to completion, using six different courses in southeast Wisconsin and northeast Illinois. It was founded by Mick Cullen, an amateur miniature golfer who holds the Guinness world record for most holes of miniature golf played in 24 hours, and who was a champion of a season one episode of the ABC game show Holey Moley.
The winner of the M.C. Mini Masters receives the Ugly Jacket.
In 2005, the tournament hosted a professional division for the first time, but due to some turnover in the offices of the USPMGA, the Pro Division did not continue in 2006. The M.C. Mini Masters has made a commitment to remain strictly amateur in the future.
Tournament director Mick Cullen announced in March 2007 that Libertyville, the closing course of the Mini Masters for four of five years from 2002 to 2006, would have to be replaced because the course had been sold to a developer who planned to level it in August 2007 and use it for another purpose. The sale fell through and the course remained intact but closed.
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